Example sentences of "they [vb past] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time they met was in the old second division at the county ground . |
| 2 | The only place they lived was in the northern mountains , the Greshorns . |
| 3 | Looking back on their ten years of marriage , Davina and Alastair feel they stopped being in touch with what their needs were after their children were born . |
| 4 | The whole Cabinet agreed that there should be a cut in the amount that the unemployed were receiving ; where they disagreed was in whether this should include a cut in the standard rate of benefit . |
| 5 | The closest they came was in the mid-Eighties when their group , Trash , Flash And Money — ‘ straight down-the-line uninteresting Billy Idol rock music ’ — was signed to a development deal by Capitol records in America ( in a development deal they give you some money while they decide whether you are any cop after all ) . |
| 6 | They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake . |
| 7 | It was a secret they 'd been in the house . |
| 8 | The classroom was the warehouse they 'd been in before . |
| 9 | When they 'd been in The Lobster Pot , and afterwards , there had been a tremendous rapport between them . |
| 10 | Unlike the other actors — they 'd been in the business much longer than I had — I had no idea what work I could get . |
| 11 | They 'd been in terrible trouble when Matron discovered their secret , and each of them had promised never to do anything so wicked again . |
| 12 | They 'd been in the cafe for over thirty minutes now , with only the sound of a fruit machine and the loud chattering of a group of youngsters in their late teens for company . |
| 13 | However fourteen days later they were still pulling out er live babies and they 'd been in there in the rubble for fourteen days . |
| 14 | It may therefore become of some importance , who it was told you that they 'd been in prison together and so were at least known to each other . |
| 15 | Half the drivers surveyed said they 'd been in a skid … most reckon they can handle one |
| 16 | There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons . |
| 17 | They 'd been in er garage at bottom . |
| 18 | I 'll need dog-handlers immediately and they 'll have to be sent out to Pontino , there 's no need for them to check in here first — the girl they released is in shock . |
| 19 | Then they stared at each other in silence and saw into each other 's heart , sensing that each was a little afraid of what was to come , and of the powers that they felt were in their wings and across their lives and which had brought them together . |
| 20 | That they took on the importance they did was in part the fault of the government . |
| 21 | What little they spoke was in the specially reverent voice reserved by the middle classes for times of bereavement . |
| 22 | Famines had been a cyclical phenomenon in the Volga region , as they had been in Asia , for centuries . |
| 23 | The Fortresses and Liberators of the USAAF , escorted by long-range fighters , were penetrating the defences — which were now much more formidable than they had been in 1940/41 . |
| 24 | Fierce local loyalties and rivalries were the life-blood of the amateur football leagues just as they had been in parish recreations a century before , and this carried over into commercial spectator sport , which offered a new kind of community life and identity . |
| 25 | For part if the time they had been in support of another Engineer regiment for joint river crossing operations , and on one occasion had carried infantrymen over a one-kilometre-wide stretch of the Weser , using their rigs as landing craft . |
| 26 | Was she praying for resurrection , asking the mysterious , invisible Maker of All Things to hasten the day when she and her dearly loved man would be united again as they had been in those golden days long past ? |
| 27 | He could n't remember ever having spoken to Gazzer , even though they had been in the same school for five years . |
| 28 | Trade unions were in fact in a much stronger position in 1933 than they had been in 1921 or 1922 . |
| 29 | Some new measures had , of course , been necessary , but on the whole changes brought about by the war were less incisive than they had been in 1914 . |
| 30 | But on 30 October the regents once more affirmed the rights of the Crown : they ordered Hugh de Neville , the Chief Justice of the Forest , to cause the royal forests to be kept by the same metes and bounds as they had been in the time of King John before the war between him and his barons . |